David Dimolfetta

Certain missions require government acquisition of personal information collected by data brokers, and appropriate safeguards need to be put in place, the official said at a Cyber Command-hosted event.

An internal company note appears to show some firm info may have been exfiltrated.

In an interview, Kevin Mandia also said it's probably easier to sway an election through misinformation than hacking.

The alert comes a week after Microsoft was faulted in a DHS report for fostering a security culture that enabled a similar China-backed cyberattack last year.

The alert comes a week after DHS faulted the company for a security culture that enabled a similar China-backed cyberattack last year.

Hackers used data from a federal contracting hub to steal funding from seven grantee organizations in an HHS breach that occurred last year.

The legislation comes after the Biden administration rescinded a memorandum that would have tied water sector cyber reviews to existing sanitation surveys.

If confirmed by U.S. officials, it would add Moscow to the list of American adversaries that have infiltrated water infrastructure in the past year.

The documented reports and research of foreign propaganda campaigns align with new private sector analysis about recent efforts to flatline U.S. election confidence.

The measure doesn’t have support from the Biden administration, which argues it threatens national security and worsens Americans’ privacy protections.